Arthur Dillon

Arthur Dillon (3 September 1750-13 April 1794) was an Irish general in the service of the Kingdom of France who fought in the American Revolutionary War. In 1794, he was executed during the Reign of Terror for his monarchist views.

Biography
Arthur Dillon was born in Bray Wick, England on 3 September 1750, descended from a family of Irish Jacobites. He became the colonel of his uncle's proprietary regiment after his death, and Dillon served in the French Army during the American Revolutionary War, being promoted to colonel after taking part in the 1779 Siege of Savannah. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris, Dillon became Governor of Tobago, and he was elected to the Estates-General of 1789 to represent Martinique, where he had married a wealthy creole widow. He was a democratic and reformist royalist, and he was recruited into the French Revolutionary Army during the French Revolutionary Wars due to his experience. In October 1792, he took command of 16,000 troops belonging to the Army of the Ardennes, only to be taken in for questioning two weeks later. On 1 July 1793, despite his aide-de-camp Francois Severin Marceau's defense, Dillon was imprisoned by the revolutionary government and was guillotined on 13 April 1794 during the Reign of Terror.